Family Ties
"Laughter. Tears. Politics... MEET THE KEATONS."
Former 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew.
Season 5 Episodes
E1
Alex shocks his parents when he visits his 3-year-old brother Andrew's very special preschool class, decides the wrong v…
E2
Distraught that his girlfriend Ellen has gone to Paris on a dance scholarship, Alex desperately tries to find someone to…
E3
Mallory is teamed with 66-year-old Margaret Hollings on a college sociology project and fins that she has a lot to learn…
E4
When Steven is asked by an old college friend to help him re-establish a left-wing political magazine they had worked on…
E5
Alex is emotionally torn when he goes to work in a bank and finds that the vice president to whom he reports is Ms. Ryan…
E6
Nick and Mallory make sudden plans to elope when Steven and Elyse vehemently oppose their marriage plans and threaten to…
E7
Alex sees Mallory and Nick leaving the Keaton residence in the predawn hours to elope, and unable to stop them, follows …
E8
When Terry Bridgeman, a colleague of Elyse's, confides that he has broken up with his girlfriend, Elyse decides to fix h…
E9
Alex must choose between his friendship with Skippy and allegiance to his college fraternity when Theta Pi Sigma pledges…
E10
Nick faces a serious dilemma when he learns that to teach an art class he must have a high school diploma. Mallory volun…
E11
While assisting his economics professor in the final stages of an important research paper, Alex faces a serious moral d…
E12
When Mallory brings her new friend, Allison King, home with her to study, little does she expect that Allison will find …
E13
It's bad news for the Keatons when Uncle Rob arrives for a visit and announces that he and his wife, Maureen, have split…
E14
The emotional roller-coaster continues at the Keaton household with the arrival of Aunt Maureen, Uncle Rob's estranged w…
E15
Mallory's relationship with Nick is put to the test when she joins a poetry reading group and becomes infatuated with it…
E16
Steven and Elyse are forced to take a new closer look at Nick and his considerable artistic talents when they invite him…
E17
The Keaton's are a house divided over a ""major"" domestic issue whether to redecorate their old-fashioned, but cozy kit…
E18
While Steven tackles the job of re-wallpapering the Keaton kitchen singlehandedly, Alex is in Chicago with his boss, Reb…
E19
When Alex plays "gentleman" to his mother and two sisters and orders for them at a restaurant without even asking them w…
E20
As chairman of the entertainment committee for the Leland College 10th reunion, Alex has big plans, which include hiring…
E21
Brother and sister go head-to-head when Steven announces a scholarship competition sponsored by his station, WKS. A conf…
E22
When Alex's friend Greg dies in a car accident, Alex is thrown into a state of shock and begins to seriously question th…
E23
Jennifer develops her first major crush on science lab partner Tim Higgins, the handsome star pitcher of the school base…
E24
When Skippy falls head-over-heels in love with Mallory's new college friend, Amy Sussman, he's both startled and overjoy…
E25
When Elyse's sister Michele and her family arrives for their annual visit, Elyse is overjoyed, while the rest of the Kea…
E26
When Mallory comes home from her sixth disastrous date in a row, Alex tries to comfort and then help. He will find her a…
E27
In her quest to become one of the popular kids, Jennifer invites her trendy classmates to her thirteenth birthday party.…
E28
In her quest to become one of the popular kids, Jennifer invites her trendy classmates to her thirteenth birthday party.…
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